“Can I come along?” The 2011 WBC had just officially ended and I was hanging around the hotel lobby when I heard Liza of Brix Chix and Melanie of Dallas Wine Chick talking about visiting a winery that afternoon. As with most out of hours events at the WBC, if you didn’t invite yourself along, you ain’t...

The 4th North American Winebloggers Conference has just come and gone and what a ride it was! I hadn’t been to the WBC since the inaugural edition in 2008 so it was great to see old friends and meet bloggers I only knew online. I have to say the Virginia Wine did a great job of showcasing their wines despite the inferno-like...

Wow! What else can I say. It’s fantastic that my little ol’ blog has been recognised by the all those winos in America. I’m one of the finalists in the 2010 Wine Blog Awards in the category of Best Graphics, Presentation or Photography. When I started TheWinesleuth, a little over 2 years ago, it really was a...

Last year (2008) saw the launch of the Winebloggers Conferences. The European one (EWBC) was in Rioja, Spain and the North American (WBC) one in Sonoma, CA. The goal of the bloggers conferences is to enable all of us in the virtual world to get together and exchange ideas in the real world. I mean, even if we’re all...

Wow! I just find this twittering fascinating. I joined Twitter back in October when I attended the WBC in Sonoma because it seemed everyone out in CA was using it but once I got back to London, I kind of forgot about it because it seemed nobody was using it. Well, that seems to have changed. Andrew from Surf4Wine turned me on to...